Technology

This will be a long post because my computer has been messed up all week.

Ugh! I hate technology sometimes. Ok - it's great having a toaster, a blender, electricity and air conditioning but I think it must have been some sadistic jerk who invented the computer! This week has made me want to take a sledgehammer to my laptop........yet again. Are there computer fairies that come during the night and mess with your computer?

Well, I went and registered Zachary for school. I thought I'd be upset, but instead I wasn't - I was kind of excited about this new phase in his life. Of course, it could just be that I'm ready for him to go to school all day too! LOL! This city is "school of choice" under a federal court decree, which means if you're white, you don't get a choice - you get what's available under a lottery system. The lottery system works this way - first choice goes to African-Americans, then siblings, then people who live within the bus routes that serve that school, then everyone else. We, unfortunately, do not have a neighborhood school and we aren't African-American, so that means we're at the bottom of the list to get into a school. We chose the closest school to us and are hoping he gets into it. It's not the best school in the district, but it stays pretty consistent in it's testing scores and it's a smaller elementary. It has a new principal this year and she already knew the name of every child in the school - pretty impressive since there are 300+ students there. It's also on a year-round calendar (balanced-calendar) so Zach will start at the end of July, get 3 weeks of vacation in the fall, 2 weeks at Christmas, and another 3 weeks for spring break and dismiss at the same time in May/June as the other schools. In essence every 9 weeks he'll get a nice break so we can take some vacations and not have to worry so much about having every other school's spring breakers to contend with.

Zachary's been on spring break this week and even though the weather has been pretty uncooperative we've had some fun. We've played outside a lot, had friends over, ate lunch and played at McDonald's and we're going Saturday to Walmart to get his picture taken with Spiderman! We haven't told him yet, he just thinks we have to go shopping tomorrow - it should be a great surprise!

Katie is doing much better the past 2 days...........finally. She's finally kicked the croup, upper respiratory infection, antiobiotic-resistant ear infection (so far on that one), yeast diaper rash and yeast infection. If it wasn't one end - it was the other. LOL! When I was washing her hair yesterday I noticed a huge bump on the side of her head. I stopped and was immediately alarmed until I examined the other side of her head and discovered a similar bump. Great - her head is exploding in size again which can only mean one thing - she's growing again. That also means the clothes she's got right now probably won't fit in a week or so - which probably means I'll be reshoeing the clydesdale again as well! LOL! I told Mike and he thought it was funny until he looked at Zach and discovered his hair wasn't sticking out on the sides of his head because it had grown out some - it was because his head has started exploding too! It's so funny with them - their heads expand outwards before their body shoots upwards. Good thing I bought his jeans long the last time and have been rolling them up. Now I understand why my mom always did that to us!! Lucky for me, pants these days for kids have adjustable waists - unlike my mother who was the darting/hemming queen!

Ah well, time to go back to pulling off the data from the computer (for the 3rd straight day) so I can reconfigure my computer and not lose anything. Takes a while but is definitely cheaper than the $199 the Geek Squad wanted. Will post photos as soon as we're back up and running.